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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
1
College presidents, superintendents and professors travel from many regions to convene with United States Commissioner Claxton at the local high school, outlining outreach and education policy discussions.
Governors and governors elect from more than half the states meet in Harrisburg to authorize a survey and urge federal legislation aiding farmers hit by low markets and high surpluses. A committee led by Governor Harding will report back, with plans to press Congress for debt relief and potentially extend the federal reserve system.
Educators legislators and citizens from Montana Idaho and Utah gather at 9 30 this morning in the high school auditorium for a conference called by U S Education Commissioner P P Claxton to discuss national educational problems and seek regional solutions. The program includes Claxton speaking to Rotary noon and lectures by EK Elliott May Trumper R O Kauffmann Alfred Atkinson with multiple sessions throughout the day.
Edward Dowd is compelled to stand with his hands in air as masked men go through his clothing in a bold daylight robbery. Police search for suspects and review nearby surveillance footage to identify those involved.
Two masked youths robbed Ed Dowd at Dowd’s Corner Grocery on Harrison Avenue near Harvard last night just after 9. They demanded money and escaped with over $200 after looting the cash register. Dowd, father of the store owner Edward F. Dowd, followed the assailants as they fled toward the rear. This item continues on Page 10.
An appeal notes millions of European children face starvation this winter. It details hunger, undernourishment, and the need for donations to the American Relief Administration led by Herbert Hoover. Specific asks include ten dollars per child and large pledges from Montanans, with contact via Prof. Alfred Atkinson at Montana State College in Bozeman.
A simple ceremony before an imposing array of dignitaries marks a new epoch in the history of the southern republic as President Obregon assumes the highest office.
General Alvaro Obregon was sworn in as president of Mexico at midnight, marking the fourth peaceful transfer of executive power in 99 years. Provisional President de la Huerta sat at Obregon’s right as the ceremony unfolded in the chamber of deputies. George T. Summerlin attended in a personal capacity, with many diplomats and delegates present from Argentina, Chile, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Japan, China, Sweden, Uruguay, Cuba, Peru, Great Britain, France, and delegations from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
A Lewistown dispatch reports the Ten Spot well in section 15-15-29, bought by West Dome Syndicate for 15000, unexpectedly flowed heavy green oil from the third sand after a day’s drilling. The syndicate, ten Lewistown businessmen, initially found water, then shifted effort as West Dome sought increased water flow.
In Palermo Sicily crowds of about seventy thousand seek emigration to the United States. Only fifteen hundred can sail each month. From Naples, six to eight steamers, with ten thousand steerage passengers, depart monthly for America.
The Meaderville council debated relocating city offices to the courthouse or renovating current quarters. Mayor Stodden called the city hall a disgrace and a meeting with civic bodies was approved to gauge taxpayer opinion. Freudenstein urged forming a joint city county committee and possible referendum. Bond sale ads were postponed to draft ordinances.
London reports 673 killed or wounded in Ireland up to Nov. 27 from anti government activities. Police losses total 151 killed and 230 wounded, 47 soldiers dead and 1023 wounded, 41 civilians killed and 101 wounded. Sixty seven courthouses and 628 police barracks destroyed, 161 damaged. 830 mail raids and 45 coast guard/lighthouse raids. 2,961 arms raids. arrests averaging over 100 weekly.
Judge W. Y. Pemberton of Helena resigns as librarian of the State Historical Society. Florence Fortune of Helena is named successor. Pemberton, now in Excelsior Springs Missouri, is in ill health.
Miss Eliza O'Dea a stenographer for the builders' supply bureau testified that she destroyed the bureau card system estimate quotation cards. She said she acted on instruction from a bureau member about four months ago before the inquiry began and after the system had fallen into disuse.
Delegates begin arriving in Butte for the Shriners semi annual convention at Bagdad temple. Large contingents from Missoula Billings Kalispell Great Falls Havre and other towns across Montana Idaho and Wyoming expected. J M Brechbill of Missoula to lead a 250 novice class Friday as the event fills the temple banquet and city tour.
New York December 1. Southern Pacific announces formation of a new Pacific Oil company under Delaware law with 3,500,000 no par shares. SP subscribes 52.5 million dollars and the firm will buy from SP Land about 259,000 acres of California land and 200,690 shares of Associated Oil stock for roughly 48.75 million. About 25,000 acres are proved oil lands while other lands are potential oil lands.
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